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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.

Paul Cezanne

Michelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always limited by the model. When he tries to be thoughtful he falls below the niveau of his great rival.
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Artist Construction Fall Greatness Himself Limitation Rival
When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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Conscious Landscape Myself Thinking
There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art.
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Art Artist Different Goodness Professional
I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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Myself Paint Truth Yourself
Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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Abstraction Color Drawing Nature Pure
When I start thinking, all is lost.
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Lost One Liner Start Thinking
I am beginning to consider myself stronger than all those around me, and you know that the good opinion I have of myself has only been reached after mature consideration.
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Beginning Company Goodness Maturity Myself Opinion Reach Strong
There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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Art Darkness Light Painting Relation Tone
Painting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the fictitious combination of effects depend entirely on the choice made by the artist.
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Art Artist Choice Combination Depend Fiction Painting Technique
The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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Art Artist Himself Personality Seduce
A puny body weakens the soul.
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I allow no one to touch me.
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Allow Myself Touch
What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations.
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Mystery Sensation Source Translation Try
Here, on the river’s verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
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Art Flower God Judgment Myself Object Painting Tree

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